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G. WHITE. Tuck Marker for Sewing Machines.

No. 229,024. 7 Patentedrlune 22,1880.

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UNITED STATES To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoner. WHITE, of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Sewing-Machine Attachments, the same being an adjustable guide for tuck-markers for sewing-machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of sewingmachine attachments known as tuck-markers, which are made use of to mark creases upon the material being stitched in a sewingmachine, to indicate the point at which the material is to be folded to form the tucks.

Heretofore it has not been customary to embroider each tuck by sewing lace and embroidery on, excepting the lowest tuck; and when it was desired to trim such lower tuck it was necessary either to baste the trimming on and then use the tucker, or form the tuck and stitch the trimming on subsequently. This, in practice, has been found objectionable for several reasons, notably among which is the great amount of time required in the arrangement of the lace or embroidery upon the tuck preparatory to stitching.

To obviate this objection is the object of my present invention; and to this end my invention consistsin the combination, with a tuckmarker of ordinary and suitable construction, of a guide adjustably secured to the bed of said tuck-marker, whereby a strip of lace or embroidery is placed in proper position with of the sewing-machine, that the same may be stitched to the edge of the tuck at the same time that the tuck is being stitched, and a crease for a second tuck is formed coincidently therewith, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top or plan View of a tuck-marker having my invention applied thereto, showing also a piece of fabric and the manner of securing a strip of lace thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bed-plate and my gage, the tucker having been removed and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same on line 00 m, Fig. 2.

A- is the plate whereby the tuek-creaser is attached to the bed-plate of the machine, and B is the arm which carries the upper memrelation to the edge of the tuck and the needle PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WHITE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TUCK-MARKER FOR SEWING-:MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,024, dated June 22, 1880.

Application filed January 17, 1880.

bers of the creasing devices, the edge of the plate A being turned upto form a lip or guide, (Z, all as is usual in this class of device.

D is the tuck-gage, which rests upon the plate A under the arm B of the creasing devices, and is also adjustable on the thumbscrew 12, on which it slides, and is regulated by means of the slot 9 in the same, whereby it can be pushed out or in, as may be required. This gage D has on its exterior end, which projects out parallel with the end of the plate A, an arm, e, the outer edge of which is turned up at right angles with the surface of said arm. In this gage D, at h, a recess is made by cutting out a piece of said raised part, in which recess the tuck-creasin g devices rest. The raised lip'of the plate A is likewise recessed to receive the arm of the gage D. Thus both gage and tucker are prevented from making any lateral movement. I

It is readily seen that thus the thumb-screw 12 holds both the guide and the creasing devices after they have been adjusted, and yet admits of either beingregulated independently of the other.

By this construction it will be seen that the tuck is stitched and the lace or embroidery is sewed to the same at one and the same operation, the lace or embroidery being held evenly in line with the tuck made, and a crease for a second tuck will be formed at the same time.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The lace F, which may be of various widths, as desired, is laid under the fabric G, so that as the tuck is turned over it will be caught in the same stitch that fastens the tuck. The

gage D is then moved or pushed up till the edge of the embroidery rests against the lip d on the plate A. The lip of the arm 6 of the gage D will then rest against the outer edge of the tuck that is to be made in the fabric, the gage being so regulated to the width of the trimming to be attached or used as to make the same pass evenly along as it is sewed to the tuck. The dotted lines L show the stitch already made, as shown in Fig. 1.

The slot g may be extended in length, as desired, as when a lace of great width is to be sewed on. In order to make a neater appearance a double-line stitch may be sewed in the fabric through both fabric and lace.

011 the gage D, at its inner end, asmall pin the upturned edge cl and the tuck-creasing deis turned. up out of the metal face of said gage, vices, of the gage D, having the arm 6, recess which serves as a thumb-piece in regulating h, thumb-piece 7c, and slot 9 and thumb-screw the gage in its longitudinal motion. The arm 1), substantially as described. a

5 e presses upon the top of thelace or embroid- Witness my hand this 6th day of January, 15

cry and against the edge of the fabric while I 1880. they are being sewed together. GEO. WHITE.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- Witnesses:

ters Patent, is 10 The combination, with the plate A, having B. S. CLARK, THEO. G. HOSTER. 

